C=H"A P. 2. ANExpolätiota upon the fecond V E R.t6, of the purchafed inheritance, maugre all the fpight, craft, power of hell. 2 The grounds of affurance for audience: t Gods fa- therly lame. 2. The teffimonies of his loue already giuen, comfort, and hope: more perfwafiuc to worke affurance of obtaining, more are extant in holy writ. r Power wee cannot but prefuppofe in God, and d abilitic to doe abun- dantly ouer and abone all that wee can astre or thinks. All the doubt is of his will : What more fwayes it then loue ? Whofe very nature is, velle "'mate bonum. See c.. 3tat.7.y, o,t I. Specially what our Sauiour kath. Iohn .6.26,2 7. Where a little hyprobolically hee feemes to exclude the necefliitie of his interceflion, to impetration; and mindes vs of the fife propenfion that is in the Father, to grant whatfoeuer we pray for. Blatterers and bablers in prayer they would make vs, who allow vs no affurance of Gods fpeciall loue in our a- doption. t How then (hall wee fulfill Saint lames his item ; e to aske, in faith, nothingdoubting ? 2 Or how haue certaine and firme hope of obtaining? When the doubt - full or difputant about certainetie of obtaining, may not thinke to obtaine any thing of god. 3 And how dare they call God Father, who know not they haue f receiued the Spirit of adoption ? 4 And hath god g promifed in vaine ? Or h precepted vs in vaine, to aske with affurance of audience. They fay this certainetie quels deuotion, inhibits care of fanölitie. See fupra. For my part, I know none euer prayed with Í more feruency of Spirit, then our Sauiour, None that was euer more k holy, harmele f f e, feparate from finners. Nor any, that was more afured of Gods loue. Wherefore, my aduife is to euery man defirous to bee fervent, and hopeful' in deuotion; labour for affurance of Gods loue. Its not affurance, but doubtfulneffe, that quencheth, or quels deuotion, The fecund ground of affurance of audience is, the gifts already bellowed, for thefe afcertaine vs of Gods loue. There is a generali loue of God, hee bates nothing that bee bath
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